You can check on how much radiation your mobile phone uses here – the lower the better! The Blackberry 8820 rates very very badly, top of the list of badness, followed closely by the Motorola i880, all this in terms of the overall acceptable radiation levels… The full details on mobile cellphone radiation are here, as provided by the Environmental Working Group.
Sigh…
But you knew that already…
Bigger but not much better - the 9" Kindle DX International
Yes, yes – you knew that already. At 546g (250g more than the 6″ Kindle International) it’s still less than the 730g the iPad from Apple weighs in at. Half the weight of a netbook…
The Kindle International DX (KIDX from now on) doesn’t have the left-hand side page-turn button (no big worries if you’re right-handed), but from a functionality perspective, other than a bigger screen, it’s pretty much business as usual – PDFs still can’t zoom, web browser’s still the same, text-to-speech is still a gimmick, and still no (Sony) ePub support. $489 is the asking price, $230 more than the 6″ Kindle…
Rather stick to the 6″ — holding the 9″ Kindle to read is more exercise than relaxation…
As you may know already, RC2 for version 1.8 of jQuery UI for jQuery 1.4 is out, heralding the final release of jQuery UI 1.8 “in the next few days” based on the What’s New post. You can link through directly from http://jquery.com/ or http://jqueryui.com/ — or get the deep-link download here.
But you knew that already! 
Afrigator.com (Blogs, Videos, Social Media etc) seems to have issues on the cross-linking of author to posting – cross-linking internally and referencing incorrectly.
I'm sure they're working on the references, working to correct.
I’m sure they’re on it.
In this example, Gaming SA hasn’t posted since Dec 2008, but is being referenced for a post from Feb 2010. THe top link goes to the site directly, and a framed Afrigator in the first and second title, respectively…
Oh well, it’s weekend
In Issue 57 of the City of Cape Town’s newsletter of 12 Feb 2010, an update of the Hospital Bend development is presented.
Construction on Hospital Bend
There’s a PDF of the outgoing and incoming lane preselection, relating to De Waal Drive’s new bridge, the new Anzio Road bridge, and the merge directly with Settler’s Way off the De Wall Drive.
From the article: “The total project budget was R263 million (excluding VAT), and it is expected that the work will be completed soon, within budget and on time.”
Yay! If they do road-construction like that all over the city, then they can go wild — I’d rank it as the best roadworks we’ve ever had in Cape Town, with visible progress and virtually zero inconvenience!
Google Gears is reportedly being relegated to the bench by the Campus (Google, that is, as mentioned in a range of comments before) in order to allow the fun-filled featues of HTML5 to replace the functionality required. Makes sense – why have a fully fledged custom system when a specification exists that covers most of the features that Google Gears encompasses. Also, this makes sense with the editors for the HTML5 spec (of at least the API vocabulary for HTML5) being Ian Hickson from Google, Inc. and David Hyatt of Apple, Inc. fame. (BTW – there’s a good presentation on the features from GoogleIO: GoogleIO presentation on Gears vs HTML5) (more…)
So images of the second phase of the Tanzania trip are up at http://www.kilimanjaro2010.co.za/Serengeti – featuring images of the Ngorogoro Crater, the Great Rift Valley (of Leakey fame – “Louis and his wife Mary held firm to this belief through decades of exploring sites in Tanzania and Kenya, and in 1959 their faith was vindicated when they uncovered the first of many hominid fossils at Olduvai Gorge.“) andthe Serengeti are now live.
Oh, and by the way – it should be oldupai, not olduvai – the plant also known as “Mother-in-Law’s Tongue” – it was a transcription error from KiMasai to German in the early 1900s by a scholar of lepidopterology that caused the long confusion and error… – but the error has stuck. “The name Olduvai, in Kimasai, means ‘place of sansevieria’, after an agave with long sharp pointed leaves and a bitter taste, better known as mother-in-law’s tongue.” as they say on travelafricamag.com
WordPress has upgraded to 2.9.2, which fixes the issue that “logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors”.
So upgrade already!
Made it back safe and sound from Tanzania — an amazing country!
Went all the way to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro (Uhuru Peak, 5895m) on Jan 30, 2010 at 06:10am 
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Pictures are up at http://www.kilimanjaro2010.co.za – more narrative will follow at some stage
Yay!!!!
